Bond 25 cast to be announced at iconic 007 location

The cast for the upcoming Bond 25 film will be announced today at one of 007’s most iconic locations, it has been confirmed.

“Coming tomorrow at 13:10 GMT, the #BOND25 Live Reveal from an iconic 007 location,” a tweet from the official 007 account read on Wednesday. “Ask the cast a question using #BOND25.”

It is expected to take place in Jamaica where author Ian Fleming wrote several Bond novels. It was also a location in Sean Connery's first Bond film Dr. No (1962) and Live and Let Die, which saw Roger Moore make his Bond debut.

Bond 25 will mark Daniel Craig’s fifth, and potentially final, outing as 007 having played the British spy in Casino Royale, Quantum Of Solace, Skyfall and Spectre.

Details on plot and cast for the 25th Bond film, directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, are sparse, but Ben Whishaw (Q), Ralph Fiennes (M), Lea Seydoux (Dr Madeleine Swann) and Naomie Harris(Eve Moneypenny) will all return.

Rami Malek has been tipped to play Bond’s nemesis, with Collider reporting the character could be blind.

Malek previously revealed he would “absolutely” say yes to playing a villain, but said he was keeping “tight-lipped” when grilled by Entertainment Tonight on the prospect earlier this year.

American director Fukunaga took over from Danny Boyle after he parted ways over “creative differences,” three months before production was due to start.

Barbara Broccoli, who is producing with Michael G Wilson, recently shut down reports the forthcoming instalment will be called Shatterhand – an alias used by supervillain Ernst Stavro Blofeld, who featured in Ian Fleming’s 1964 novel You Only Live Twice.

Broccoli signed a poster reading “Shatterhand 007” and added the comment: “It’s not.”

The film is slated for release on April 25, 2020 after getting pushed back from late 2019 and then February 2020.